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. >>> now to washington, a big meeting on the hill tomorrow. leaders from both sides of the aisle will come together to try a break a deadlock over the nation's debt. yesterday president obama made a rare appearance in the white house briefing room to urge lawmakers to show up with the right attitude. >> it's my hope to everybody's going to leave their ultimatums at the door. they will leave political rhetoric at the door and we're going to do what's best for our economy and do what's best for our people. >> house speaker john boehner put out this tough statement quote saying, i am happy at the moment to discuss these issues at the white house, but these discussions will be fruitless until the president recognizes economic and legislative reality. luke russert covers capitol hill for us. luke, part of that discussion is the mini deal with senators reid and mcconnell were discussing earlier. where does that stand in this discussion so far? >> it's interesting, one of the things that is being thrown up on capitol hill is somewhat of a mini deal.
. >>> now to washington, a big meeting on the hill tomorrow. leaders from both sides of the aisle will come together to try a break a deadlock over the nation's debt. yesterday president obama made a rare appearance in the white house briefing room to urge lawmakers to show up with the right attitude. >> it's my hope to everybody's going to leave their ultimatums at the door. they will leave political rhetoric at the door and we're going to do what's best for our economy and do...
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the other big weather story would be some of the showers and thunderstorms you're dealing with some of this today in new york city. not alone philadelphia, d.c., baltimore, toward boston and hartford. seeing threat of severe thunderstorms as we head through the day. better days ahead for the 4th tomorrow it looks like things will clear out for much of the northeast. >> which is where we are. no complaints, certainly compared to arizona. >>> more details about the crumbling case dense dominique strauss-kahn. prosecutors revealed serious questions about the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault. ron allen outside the apartment for dominique strauss-kahn. ron, with a good morning to you, do these questions have brought up a lot of issues, none of yet to be resolved yet. but it's a mess, to say the least. >> reporter: well, it's a lot, yes. strauss-kahn is still at this luxury townhouse. no longer under house arrest. he can go where err he wants to he seems to be spending time here. he can afford to sit back the harsh spotlight is focused on his accuser the 32-year-old housekeeper f
the other big weather story would be some of the showers and thunderstorms you're dealing with some of this today in new york city. not alone philadelphia, d.c., baltimore, toward boston and hartford. seeing threat of severe thunderstorms as we head through the day. better days ahead for the 4th tomorrow it looks like things will clear out for much of the northeast. >> which is where we are. no complaints, certainly compared to arizona. >>> more details about the crumbling case...
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brewer, covering the big news from coast to coast. the big story today, casey anthony will be out of jail in less than one week. moments ago, we learned the florida mother acquitted of murdering her own 2-year-old daughter will be released next wednesday, july 13th. on tuesday, she was convicted on all counts of lying to police. this morning, judge belvin perry announced what that would cost her. >> i will sentence you to one year in the orange county jail, imposing a $1,000 fine on each count. all four counts to run consecutive to each other, giving you credit for the time that you have previously served. >> that credit amounted to just over 1,000 days. let's go live now to orlando. nbc is outside the courthouse with the very latest on what has happened this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, richard. that was six days short of the worst case scenario for those protesters that gathered around this morning outside the courtroom. certainly not comforting, not even six weeks or six months, not even six years is any
brewer, covering the big news from coast to coast. the big story today, casey anthony will be out of jail in less than one week. moments ago, we learned the florida mother acquitted of murdering her own 2-year-old daughter will be released next wednesday, july 13th. on tuesday, she was convicted on all counts of lying to police. this morning, judge belvin perry announced what that would cost her. >> i will sentence you to one year in the orange county jail, imposing a $1,000 fine on each...
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places in which the president won big in 2008. let's look at the unemployment rate in those states now. your state, pennsylvania, 7.4%. just barely above that, but some are all right. north carolina, 9.7%, that's not all right. california, 11.7. florida, 10.6. at least pennsylvania and ohio, key states, below the national average. >> pennsylvania almost two points below, but that's because pennsylvania had a terrific governor who knew how to invest dollars to trigger economic growth. >> was that ed rendell? yeah. i'm going give you props, absolutely. you should take them, but that said, do you think the president can win this election if the economy does not take a drastic turn? is it enough for people to say we're moving in the sort of cha that might take us off that direction? >> i think your analysis is exactly right. look, i think the economy will be low. unemployment will be low in november. i think it will be down from where it is today. president obama has the make the same argument that president roosevelt made. roosevelt
places in which the president won big in 2008. let's look at the unemployment rate in those states now. your state, pennsylvania, 7.4%. just barely above that, but some are all right. north carolina, 9.7%, that's not all right. california, 11.7. florida, 10.6. at least pennsylvania and ohio, key states, below the national average. >> pennsylvania almost two points below, but that's because pennsylvania had a terrific governor who knew how to invest dollars to trigger economic growth....
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in a really big suitcase. maybe not that big. prison staff found the curled up inmate after they noticed that the woman was looking a little bit nervous and pulling -- is man is in prison for illegal weapons possession. >>> a very enterprising monkey in indonesia managed to catch himself on camera. a photographer in the jungle stepped away from his equipment and the monkey came to strike a pose. ended up with some decent self-portraits. the smiling one at the top was probably the most shocking to me. look at that one. joey chestnut does it again. the man known as jaws won his fifth title many the nathan's international hot dog eating contest yesterday. jaws polished off 62 dogs in ten minutes at the annual fourth of july event on coney island. not far away in manhattan. chestnut's archrival kobayashi who is banned from the contest because he will not sign an exclusive contest. he claims he put away 69 hot dogs. that was out of competition, it doesn't count. a lot of hot dogs consumed. >>> debt deadline congress has two weeks to r
in a really big suitcase. maybe not that big. prison staff found the curled up inmate after they noticed that the woman was looking a little bit nervous and pulling -- is man is in prison for illegal weapons possession. >>> a very enterprising monkey in indonesia managed to catch himself on camera. a photographer in the jungle stepped away from his equipment and the monkey came to strike a pose. ended up with some decent self-portraits. the smiling one at the top was probably the most...
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i'm contessa brewer covering the big news coast to coast. the big story right now the phone hacking scandal in great britain reaches the highest echelons of government. with prime minister david cameron facing cheers and jeers in an uncommon emergency session of the house of commons. >> i have an old fashioned view about innocent until proven guilty. >> prime minister david cameron addressing the house of commons. >> if it turns out andy coulson knew about the hacking at the news of the world he will not only have lied to me, but he would have lied to the police, to a select committee torque the press complaints commission, and of course, perjured himself in a court of law. >> former news of the world ed tore andy coulson was until january cameron's communications director. >> with 20/20 hindsight and all that has followed i would not have offered him the job and i expect that he wouldn't have taken it. >> coulson was arrested this month suspected of corruption in the u.s. voice mail hacking and police bribery scandal. >> you live and you le
i'm contessa brewer covering the big news coast to coast. the big story right now the phone hacking scandal in great britain reaches the highest echelons of government. with prime minister david cameron facing cheers and jeers in an uncommon emergency session of the house of commons. >> i have an old fashioned view about innocent until proven guilty. >> prime minister david cameron addressing the house of commons. >> if it turns out andy coulson knew about the hacking at the...
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i'm contessa brewer covering the big news coast to coast. we begin with breaking news out of texas, where authorities have arrested an army private assigned to fort campbell, kentucky. officials found bomb-making materials in his hotel room. that arrest came after someone reportedly overheard the private threatening to stage an attack on the army post at fort hood. fort hood was the scene of a deadly shooting attack in november 2009. major nadal hassan is accused of killing 13 people and wounding dozens of others. pete williams has the latest from washington now. pete, what do you know about this arrest of the private? >> reporter: right. well, good afternoon. you saw killeen, texas on that map. that's where he was arrested. he's a private first class assigned to fort campbell, but arrested in texas yesterday and according to law enforcement officials, what happened is he went into a gun store in killeen, texas and was asking questions that the gun store owner thought was suspicious. he was also buying smokeless powder which can be used for
i'm contessa brewer covering the big news coast to coast. we begin with breaking news out of texas, where authorities have arrested an army private assigned to fort campbell, kentucky. officials found bomb-making materials in his hotel room. that arrest came after someone reportedly overheard the private threatening to stage an attack on the army post at fort hood. fort hood was the scene of a deadly shooting attack in november 2009. major nadal hassan is accused of killing 13 people and...
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big mistake. if you keep your windows closed, your home, whether it's an apartment house, whatever, acts like a big thermos it locks in the cold air. air it it out at night if you have to. >> that's what i do. it seems to work. how about curtains, bringing down shades. does that help? >> definitely. it depends on the kind of curtain. it's tempting to get the big blackout curtains it will be fine. get something called radiant curtains. what they do is they reflect the light. they reflect the heat, and they keep your house from turning into a greenhouse. they don't look half bad, either. you don't notice them so much. >> sam, if you're just dealing with fans, how can you maximize what the fan puts out to keep it from just blowing hot air around. >> there's a low tech solution to this. it sounds silly. if you take a bowl of ice or tray or whatever, stick it in front of fan, you get a sort of cheapo air-conditioning effect without spending the air-conditioning money. you have to switch out the ice eve
big mistake. if you keep your windows closed, your home, whether it's an apartment house, whatever, acts like a big thermos it locks in the cold air. air it it out at night if you have to. >> that's what i do. it seems to work. how about curtains, bringing down shades. does that help? >> definitely. it depends on the kind of curtain. it's tempting to get the big blackout curtains it will be fine. get something called radiant curtains. what they do is they reflect the light. they...
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that leads to my big question today. now that she's free, here's the big question, what are casey anthony's long-term career prospects? you can join in the conversation we're having on facebook and twitter or shoot me an email. >>> moody's credit rating agency is suggesting the u.s. should get rid of the debt ceiling entirely because of all the chaos and uncertainty it seems to create. senator majority leader harry reid and his republican counterpart mitch mcconnell appear to have a similar idea. "the washington post" reports they're working on a back up plan that would allow the president to raise the debt ceiling three times over the next year. for a photo tal of $2.5 trillion in exchange the president would agree to a $1.5 trillion in spending cuts. and there would be a new congressional committee tasked with finding even deficit reductions. some conservative republicans aren't sold on that. >> the way the deal's currently structured right now. it gives the president the ability to raise the debt limit. >> the mcconne
that leads to my big question today. now that she's free, here's the big question, what are casey anthony's long-term career prospects? you can join in the conversation we're having on facebook and twitter or shoot me an email. >>> moody's credit rating agency is suggesting the u.s. should get rid of the debt ceiling entirely because of all the chaos and uncertainty it seems to create. senator majority leader harry reid and his republican counterpart mitch mcconnell appear to have a...
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while giving huge tax breaks to big oil and the wealthy. we can't rebuild america if they tear down the middle class. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. priorities usa action is responsible for the content purina cat chow helps you well-being. we're all striving for it. nurture it in your cat with a full family of excellent nutrition and helpful resources. purina cat chow. share a better life. challenge that with olay regenerist night elixir. its gentle...
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let's look for the big fix. the president says, luke, let's go for the big fix and now the republicans are going, wait a minute. what gives? luke. >> politics is the art of the possible. a lot of folks on capitol hill feel right now that a short-term solution is the only thing possible because of the eight-day time window that you mentioned. that being said, there are two very different plans which you talked about in the introduction which are going through capitol hill right now. speaker boehner plan is going to have an extension, which gets us through the wipter. i'm told that speaker boehner's going to brief his house republican conference at 2:00 p.m. about the details of that plan. won't get extremely specific. then for all intensive purposes it looks from discussions i've had with certain aides that you can see as early as wednesday a house of representatives votes on speaker boehner's plan. harry reid is going to go his own way with a $2.7 trillion reduction plan across the board. both of these contessa
let's look for the big fix. the president says, luke, let's go for the big fix and now the republicans are going, wait a minute. what gives? luke. >> politics is the art of the possible. a lot of folks on capitol hill feel right now that a short-term solution is the only thing possible because of the eight-day time window that you mentioned. that being said, there are two very different plans which you talked about in the introduction which are going through capitol hill right now....
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i'montessa brewer back in the saddle covering the big news coast to coast. we begin with breaking news. the judge in the roger clemens perjury trial has just declared a mistrial. nbc's pete williams is in washington, d.c. what's the judge saying about this trial, pete? >> reporter: well, the judge has said he'll decide at a hearing on september 2nd, almost two months from now, where we go from here. this trial had just started yesterday with opening statements from both sides and the prosecutors had begun calling witnesses, but the judge had told the prosecutors in advance that certain evidence was off-limits and one of the things that was off-limits was related to testimony by a friend and former teammate of roger clemens named andy pettitte who had played with him on two major league teams. andy pettitte has said that roger clemens told him he used human growth hormone. clemens says that pettitte is mistaken. what's at issue here is a legal document, sort of sworn statement by the wife of andy pettitte, who says yeah, i heard my husband tell me that roger
i'montessa brewer back in the saddle covering the big news coast to coast. we begin with breaking news. the judge in the roger clemens perjury trial has just declared a mistrial. nbc's pete williams is in washington, d.c. what's the judge saying about this trial, pete? >> reporter: well, the judge has said he'll decide at a hearing on september 2nd, almost two months from now, where we go from here. this trial had just started yesterday with opening statements from both sides and the...
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the fs the big red blob moving on shore. as soon as it got to the coast and dry land in texas, poof, all of a sudden don was gone. it looks like scattered showers and storms in texas during the day. this wasn't the answer we were hoping for. not a lot of wet weather on the map. there are some showers and storms in northern m mo. your forecast for today rain likely, more or less in mexico not in texas. hot weather for dallas one again. warm and sunny in the northeast. sunday forecast we should see a lot of thunderstorms in the mid-atlantic and the monsoonal showers and storms will continue in the four corners region. a lit of disappointment in texas. it didn't come true. hopefully we'll get another weak tropical system later in the season. >> keep it right here. we will have a live report from corpus christie, texas, coming up. >>> meantime, the search for a missing new hampshire girl, whab haven't police issued an amber alert? >>> back to court, the battle over dna evidence heats up in amanda knox' appeal in italy. >>> what
the fs the big red blob moving on shore. as soon as it got to the coast and dry land in texas, poof, all of a sudden don was gone. it looks like scattered showers and storms in texas during the day. this wasn't the answer we were hoping for. not a lot of wet weather on the map. there are some showers and storms in northern m mo. your forecast for today rain likely, more or less in mexico not in texas. hot weather for dallas one again. warm and sunny in the northeast. sunday forecast we should...
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we were hoping for a big drenching. think of texas almost like a hot pizza oven and all we did was throw a napkin in it. this storm dissipated faster than almost any storm i've seen before. it didn't even go into the mountains and dissipate, it literally evaporated as it moves over brownsville. you can see it on the satellite imagery. it was the big red blob, and as soon as it got to the dry land in texas, poof. all of a sudden, don was gone. so not good news down there. the storm system is -- what's left of it, circulation is going to head for mexico anyway so it looks like just scattered showers and storms in texas during the day today. we'll take what we can get, but this wasn't the answer we were hoping for. there's not a lot of wet weather on the map, there are showers in missouri, also showers in the northern plains. your forecast for today, rain likely more or less in mexico, not texas. hot weather for dallas once again. warm and sunny in the northeast. as we go into the sunday forecast, we should see a lot of th
we were hoping for a big drenching. think of texas almost like a hot pizza oven and all we did was throw a napkin in it. this storm dissipated faster than almost any storm i've seen before. it didn't even go into the mountains and dissipate, it literally evaporated as it moves over brownsville. you can see it on the satellite imagery. it was the big red blob, and as soon as it got to the dry land in texas, poof. all of a sudden, don was gone. so not good news down there. the storm system is --...